Armed with his usual impressive array of obscure musical technology and, more importantly, the ability to create something fascinating with it, Sonic Boom continues his open-ended series of explorations with Experimental Audio Research into a new millennium with Vibrations. Again making EAR a solo project instead of a group effort, the five-track Vibrations is long enough to be an album and possesses plenty of treats along the way. As with most of his EAR work, while the general sonic principle remains the...   [ read more ]

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For as much as E.A.R. first got described to the public as a collaborative effort -- the liner notes even mention Shields, Prevost, and Martin as Sonic Boom's fellow sound makers -- Mesmerised consists of Boom on his own, understandable considering that the group would become his primary mode of post-Spacemen 3 solo expression. As a debut for the continuing project, it's a near-total winner; a winning collage of drones, tones, and endless atmospheric washes that becomes a logical ex...   [ read more ]

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Working with an expanded E.A.R. collective this time around, Sonic Boom continued his explorations into post-psychedelic experimentation with the attractive drones of Phenomena 256. Prevost and Martin return from Beyond the Pale, the latter helping co-produce, but the overall results aren't anywhere near as dark as that album, feeling more like a balance between it and the warmer sounds of Mesmerised. Longtime Boom counterpart Pete Bain, aka Pete Bassman from Spacemen 3 and...   [ read more ]

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